The "Weird Wendels": An Epic True Story of The Famous New York and Irvington Residents

For seven decades the Wendels locked up their Fifth Avenue mansion to spend their Summers in Irvington, where they kept cows and chickens and a kitchen garden. The family had made a fortune in New York real estate but as the Gilded Age came to an end this once fabulous, famous family turned against each other and became mired in gossip and intrigue. One sibling spent most of her adult life in an asylum, another was imprisoned in the Irvington house by her brother and had to fight in court to prove that she was sane, and seven out of eight of the siblings never married. Who were the family whom the New York press dubbed “the weird Wendels”? Join Claire Prentice, the author of Curse of Riches, as she leads us through the story of this fascinating family.